CVE-2026-76504
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager System Account Authorization Bypass Vulnerability
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
A vulnerability in the API session-based authentication management of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access an affected system with privileges of the admin user. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of URI encoding in an HTTP request, which allows the request to bypass an authentication rule that is intended to restrict access to a specific API endpoint. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the API of the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to the API as the admin user.
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Key data
CVSS 3.1 Critical 9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector: Network
The vulnerable component can be reached over a network, possibly from the Internet.
Attack complexity: Low
No special conditions are needed. The attack can be repeated at will.
Privileges required: None
No account or privileges are needed.
User interaction: None
No action from any user is needed.
Scope: Unchanged
The impact stays within the vulnerable component.
Confidentiality impact: High
Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data.
Integrity impact: High
Serious or total effect on the trustworthiness of data.
Availability impact: High
Serious or total effect on availability.
| Metric | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Attack vector | Network | The vulnerable component can be reached over a network, possibly from the Internet. |
| Attack complexity | Low | No special conditions are needed. The attack can be repeated at will. |
| Privileges required | None | No account or privileges are needed. |
| User interaction | None | No action from any user is needed. |
| Scope | Unchanged | The impact stays within the vulnerable component. |
| Confidentiality impact | High | Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data. |
| Integrity impact | High | Serious or total effect on the trustworthiness of data. |
| Availability impact | High | Serious or total effect on availability. |
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EPSS
- Score
- 0.38928 (38.9% probability)
- Percentile
- 98.6%
- Scores of
- Nov 10, 2026
- Model
- v2026.06.15
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
- Name in the catalog
- Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Hex Encoding Vulnerability
- Added to the catalog
- Sep 30, 2026
- Federal due date
- Oct 3, 2026
CISA assessment as of Sep 30, 2026
- Exploitation
- Recorded by CISA as active
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- total
Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-177Improper Handling of URL Encoding (Hex Encoding)
Affected products
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
- affected: 20.1.12
- affected: 19.2.1
- affected: 18.4.4
- affected: 18.4.5
- affected: 20.1.1.1
- affected: 20.1.1
- affected: 19.3.0
- affected: 19.2.2
- affected: 19.2.099
- affected: 18.3.6
- affected: 18.3.7
- affected: 19.2.0
- affected: 18.3.8
- affected: 19.0.0
- affected: 19.1.0
- affected: 18.4.302
- affected: 18.4.303
- affected: 19.2.097
- affected: 19.2.098
- affected: 17.2.10
- affected: 18.3.6.1
- affected: 19.0.1a
- affected: 18.2.0
- affected: 18.4.3
- affected: 18.4.1
- and 390 more
References
- cisco-sa-sdwan-webauth-xr8beuuU (sec.cloudapps.cisco.com)
Timeline
- ID reserved
- Added to CISA KEV
- Record published
- Record last updated
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